Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?